The enigma of Isaac Babel
Subtitle: biography, history, context
By: edited by Grisha Freidin.
Contributors: Freidin, Gregory.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804759038
Subjects: Babelʹ, I. -- 1894-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses; Russian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Attempting a biography. Researching Babel's biography : adventures and misadventures / Patricia Blake; title: Babels' two Aphrodites : autobiography in Maria and Babel's Petersburg myth / Gregory Freidin; title: Babel in the context of Russian history. The Reds and the Jews, or the comrades in arms of the military reporter Liutov / Oleg Budnitskii; title: Isaac Babel and the Jewish experience of revolution / Carol J. Avins; title: Writers at the front : language of state in the Civil War narratives of Isaac Babel and Dmitrii Furmanov / Michael S. Gorham; title: Thinned and diluted : Babel in published Russian literature of the Soviet period / Marietta Chudakova; title: Babel in the world of letters and on stage. Babel, Flaubert, and the rapture of perception / Robert Alter; title: Towards a typology of "debut" narratives : Babel, Nabokov, and others / Alexander Zholkovsky; title: Pan Pisar' : clerkship in Babel's first-person narration / Elif Batuman; title: The child's eye : Isaac Babel in Russian-Jewish, American, and European literature of assimilation / Zsuzsa Hetényi; title: Text, intertext, context : Babel, Bialik, and others / Efraim Sicher; title: Staging Babel's Maria for young American audiences, seventy years after / Carl Weber.